[PLUG] Setting Up A Mail List

[Petcher, Danielx J]

Your privacy concerns are indeed legitimate and I do think Yahoo has changed
their privacy policy more than once. I subscribe to the BLUE (Beaverton
Linux Users Education) list via Topica.Com and I haven't gotten spammed yet.
Your mileage may vary.

Of course, if you're REALLY worried about privacy and SPAM, you can set-up a
bulletin board like vBulletin or phBB. The advantage here is that none of
the discussion goes over the SMTP-based Email protocol; it's all on your
server. The disadvantage is that all of the discussion and reading traffic
hits your server. Some of your user community will appreciate the privacy
benefit of not having to list a legitimate Internet Email address on every
message they post. Some of your user community may resent having to look
outside their Email box to see message traffic on your BBS.

-djp
http://folding.stanford.edu - the brain you save may be your own!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Kuskie [mailto:ckuskie at dalsemi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 10:25 AM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Setting Up A Mail List
> 
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:13:49AM -0700, Petcher, Danielx J wrote:
> > If you're not tied to the idea of hosting the list on your own
> equipment,
> > there are numerous sites such as topica and yahoo that will serve your
> > mailing list. Administration is web-based and the only charge they
> impose is
> > that they tack-on a couple lines of advertisement at the end of every
> > message posted. (You're already used to that from PLUG, aren't you?)
> 
> and force you to sign up for an account for which they reset the privacy
> options periodically without warning you
> 
> and make you look at ads if you want to look through the list archives
> 
> and distribute your information to their "partners"
> 
> If you value privacy and don't want to end up receiving more than 100
> pieces
> of spam per day, do not use sites like these.
> 
> Colin